In an amazing turn around the House Judiciary Committee added the text back into the bill HR 5469 (Webcasting Royalty Bill) that sees to it that the artists get paid directly. The bill offers a lower royalty rate to small commerical webcasters. However the bill does not apply to college webcasters so there are still some issues to settle.

There was a flury of activity on Monday, to make sure that the artists got paid directly.

Another aspect of this that was quite encouraging was that many groups came together to assure that the text got put back in that pays the artist directly. Among them were: Future of Music Coalition, The Recording Artists Coalition, AFTRA, NARAS, The American Federation of Musicians, and the International Managers. GOOD WORK FOLKS!

Full Text of the Bill as Passed in the House (PDF)
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